Addressing social determinants of health to improve access to early breast cancer detection: Results of the boston reach 2010 breast and cervical cancer coalition women's health demonstration project

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 677-690

  Clark, Cheryl R ^a,b   Baril, Nashira ^b,c   Kunicki, Marycarmen ^a   Johnson, Natacha ^a   Soukup, Jane ^a   Ferguson, Kathleen ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart ^a   Bigby, Judyann ^b,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boston REACH 2010 Breast and Cervical Cancer Coalition   (United States)

^c Boston Public Health Commissions   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CASE MANAGER; CERVICAL CANCER COALITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACIAL AND ETHNIC APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BOSTON; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 68349121468     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2008.0972     Document Type: Article

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